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![[City flag]](../images/u/us-azngl.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 25 March 2024
based on photo located by Daniel Rentería,
25 March 2024
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Seen
here on Twitter, at the 2019 League of Arizona Cities and Towns conference,
the flag is the logo on a white field.
Daniel Rentería,
19 July 2023
An almost complete image of the flag is seen at
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm33fjOh1Ci/?img_index=4, although very blurry.
It seems to say "Nogales, Arizona" in italics, plus the founded date, and seems
to have a tree with mountains extending out of it. Also visible is the seal, and
below the tree is what I think to be a motto.
Daniel Rentería, 1
August 2023
The motto is "You're Among Friends!"
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/new-signs-welcome-visitors-to-nogales
Masao Okazaki, 1 August 2023
I received a response from the administration saying that
the flag was designed by then-councilman Jeff Gudenkauf, probably around 2006 or
2007.
The tree depicted in the flag is likely a walnut tree, the namesake
of the city. Nogales sits on a mountain pass, probably the reason there is a
mountain behind this tree on the flag.
Daniel Rentería, 25 March
2024
![[City seal]](../images/u/us-azngl).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
Source:
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/nogalesinternational.com/
Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
The website at www.cityofnogales.net shows a very unusual seal combining the
traditional circular format for the outer ring with a heraldic coat of arms in the centre. The outer ring is green and gold, with a golden border and with a white fimbriation at the inner edge. Within the green and gold outer ring are the words 'CITY OF NOGALES' in golden capitals, at either side are three golden five-pointed stars, and at the bottom the word 'ARIZONA', again in golden capitals. The centre of the seal is heraldic in nature: On a gold background is a triangular shield divided per bend vert with a golden device thereupon, with a stylised U.S. flag above the bend displayed so that the canton is in chief and the stripes are paly, while below the bend is the Mexican flag, likewise reversed in structure and displayed in a horizontal format green- white-red, with the national symbol displayed on the white. The bend represents the border between the U.S. and Mexico, which divides Nogales, Arizona, from Nogales, Chihuahua.
Ron Lahav, 21 April 2004
